25 Facts About Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace .

Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields.

Nobel Prizes, beginning in 1901, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, beginning in 1969, have been awarded 609 times to 975 people and 25 organizations.

Alfred Nobel Prizes was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers.

In 1894, Nobel Prizes purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he made into a major armaments manufacturer.

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In 1888, Nobel Prizes was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The merchant of death is dead", in a French newspaper.

The article disconcerted Nobel Prizes and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered.

On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel Prizes died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Nobel Prizes composed the last over a year before he died, signing it at the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895.

Nobel Prizes's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Prizes Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

The Nobel Foundation reached an agreement on guidelines for how the prizes should be awarded; and, in 1900, the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.

Nobel Prizes Foundation was founded as a private organization on 29 June 1900.

In many ways, the Nobel Foundation is similar to an investment company, in that it invests Nobel's money to create a solid funding base for the prizes and the administrative activities.

The Nobel Prizes Foundation is exempt from all taxes in Sweden and from investment taxes in the United States .

The remaining members escaped persecution from the Germans when the Nobel Prizes Foundation stated that the committee building in Oslo was Swedish property.

The board of the Nobel Foundation decided that after this addition, it would allow no further new prizes.

The Prizes awarded in Sweden's ceremonies are held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, with the Nobel banquet following immediately at Stockholm City Hall.

Nobel Prizes Foundation announced on 30 May 2012 that it had awarded the contract for the production of the five Nobel Prizes Prize medals to Svenska Medalj AB.

Nobel Prizes's portrait appears on the obverse of the Peace Prize medal and the medal for the Economics Prize, but with a slightly different design.

Nobel Prizes laureates receive a diploma directly from the hands of the King of Sweden, or in the case of the peace prize, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prizes Committee.

Nobel Prizes alleged that Jelinek's works were "a mass of text shovelled together without artistic structure".

In 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, the Norwegian Nobel Prizes Committee decided to make no award that year on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate".

Alfred Nobel left his fortune to finance annual prizes to be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind".

Nobel Prizes stated that the Nobel Prizes in Physics should be given "to the person who shall have made the most important 'discovery' or 'invention' within the field of physics".

Statue and memorial symbol Planet of Alfred Nobel Prizes was opened in Alfred Nobel Prizes University of Economics and Law in Dnipro, Ukraine in 2008.

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